8 mai 2024 | Anglais, Prix littéraires, Romans
It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a...
3 avril 2024 | Anglais, Physique
The great North American eclipse of 2024 A complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun. Totality: The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 is the most comprehensive source of information, photographs, and illustrations to help...
7 février 2024 | Anglais, Psychologie
A defense of the exhausted, exploited, and overworked Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles. Like many Americans, Dr. Devon Price believed that productivity was the best way to measure self-worth. Price was an overachiever from...
13 décembre 2023 | Anglais, Poésie, Prix littéraires
Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on...
29 novembre 2023 | Anglais, Psychologie
Why you can’t pay attention–and how to think deeply again In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that...
8 novembre 2023 | Anglais, Prix littéraires, Romans
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by...
